If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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